TamaraB
Question The Current Paradigm
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join:2000-11-08
Brooklyn NYC
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to Morac
Re: So encrypt your traffic
said by Morac  : ... you don't want people to read your data, encrypt it. Indeed! Why is https NOT the standard for browsing? Why is encrypted email not the standard?
Powerful tools currently exist to protect our privacy, and are available to EVERYONE, why are they not used? Why are they NOT the default?
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cornelius785
join:2006-10-26
Worcester, MA
| I'm guessing a couple reasons may be server load, connections load (i think more packets have to sent back and forth to establish a ssl connection), and maybe bandwidth. encryption and decryption is fairly computational intense operation. i suppose for email, you'd need a client that everyone has that is capable of handling encryption and make it SEAMLESS to the end user when operating (think of going to https site) maybe a someone more knowledgeable in computer/network/internet security could comment what i've stated. |
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deepblackmag
join:2004-12-27
00000 | These days with ssl offload and crypto accel cards, theres no excuse for claiming its not done because of a performance issue. I run it everywhere on my equipment. |
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keyboard5684
join:2001-08-01
Youngsville, PA
 ·Teliax VOIP
 ·WestPAnet Inc.
 ·WestPAnet Inc. CA..
| When you made this post, was it encrypted the whole way?
You cannot encrypt everything unless everyone else wants to and agrees with your method. DSLReports would have horrible server load trying to run SSL between them and the readers.
It is an excuse. Just because you can have a crypto card in a cisco router, or whatever, for maybe $500 doing it in a "real" server situation is different. You are the client, not the server.
Costs is the excuse, not the fact the technology does not exists. |
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